Hispanophone literature

Sudden Death: A Novel

by Álvaro Enrigue & Natasha Wimmer

"Splendid" —New York Times

"[A] novel without boundaries." —O, the Oprah Magazine

"Mind-bending." —Wall Street Journal

A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a...

Love in Lowercase: A Novel

by Francesc Miralles & Julie Wark

A romantic comedy for language lovers and fans of The Rosie Project, about a brainy bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life’s little pleasures

The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick:

“A...

On the Edge

by Rafael Chirbes & Margaret Jull Costa

On the Edge is a monumental fresco of a brutal contemporary Spain in free fall On the Edge opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain—a town wracked by despair...

None So Blind

by José Ángel González Sainz, Harold Augenbraum & Cecilia Ross

An intense moral fable on values and personal identity against a backdrop of social rupture and political violence.

Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls)

by Enrique Vila-Matas & Valerie Miles

A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker)

Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia...

The Master of the Prado: A Novel

by Javier Sierra

New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art—complete with gorgeous,...

The Japanese Lover: A Novel

by Isabel Allende

From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, “a magical and sweeping” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day...

One Out of Two

by Daniel Sada

"A literary titan of his time, one of the most innovative novelists in contemporary Latin American letters." -The Washington Post

The most distinctive thing about the Gamal sisters is that they are, essentially,...

Target in the Night

by Ricardo Piglia & Sergio Waisman

A masterful psychological and political crime novel by Argentina's greatest living writer expands the genre of "paranoid fiction."

Dinner

by César Aira & Katherine Silver

Was it a nightmare—the result of a bad case of indigestion—or did something truly scary happen after dinner in the Argentine town of Coronel Pringles? One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties...

The Story of My Teeth

by Valeria Luiselli & Christina Macsweeney

Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.

Final Exam

by Julio Cortázar & Alfred MacAdam

One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."—Pablo Neruda

In its characters, themes, and preoccupations, Final Exam prefigures Cortázar's later fictions, including...

The Things We Don't Do

by Andrés|Caistor, Nick Neuman & Lorenza Garcia

Mind-bending set of stories—the first of Neuman's in English—calls to mind the best of Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges.

The Map of Chaos: A Novel

Victorian Trilogy #3

by Félix J. Palma

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky, the final installment in the award-winning trilogy that The Washington Post called “a big, genre-bending delight.”

When...

The Illogic of Kassel

by Enrique Vila-Matas, Anne McLean & Anna Milsom

A literary look at one of Europe’s most acclaimed art exhibitions by a Spanish author “offering strange cerebral satisfactions” (Village Voice). A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An...

The Queen's Adept

by Rodolfo Martínez

The People's Covenant and God's Hammer have raged a Cold War that has lasted for over twenty years. A war without armies, where battles are fought in the dark and information is the most dangerous weapon. In...

Terra Nova. An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction

by Vv.Aa. & Mariano Villarreal

Six top Spanish-language authors prove that science fiction remains sharp and visionary, with stories about the deepest anxieties, challenges, and problems of our societies. Their speculations and metaphors...

The Discreet Hero

by Mario Vargas Llosa & Edith Grossman

The latest masterpiece—perceptive, funny, insightful, affecting—from the Nobel Prize–winning author

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters...

Signs Preceding the End of the World

by Yuri Herrera & Lisa Dillman

Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States...

The Musical Brain: And Other Stories

by César Aira & Chris Andrews

A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction. A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Aira–the author of at...